Always a pleasure to present at @pintofscience.uk🍺🧠 This time about the intricacies of our second brain (enteric nervous system), how it develops 🧩 and how systems biology helps us learn more 🖥️🧮 #pintofscience #phd #systemsbiology

Notre Bel ESM 😍🤩

As if you were there: Return to Earth with the Artemis II crew www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Hx... #Artemis

Super proud of this - biologists can math baby #mathbio #phd #stemcells

Over the moon to see this work from my PhD finally published in Development! Using a combination of structural biology and genetics we identify an avidity-driven mechanism of BMP signal control in the extracellular space. (1/11)

⚛️🎙️Check out my chat with @sudeuyulgan.bsky.social on her Lab voices series that you can find on her IG @phdlifewithsude. We discussed about making the jump from a tech post to a PhD and making the bigger jump from wet lab to systems biology. #PhDSky #SystemsBiology

Fantastic talk from our 2026 Postdoc ECR Medal Winner @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at #DynamicCellVI explaining her research on the role of 3D epithelial topology in developmental patterning Congratulations Giulia 👏👏

Witness breathtaking drone footage capturing the fiery heart of a volcanic eruption. A new era of vulcanology is here, revealing nature's power like never before.

How do you build the posterior end of a body? 🧫🔬🧬 I am excited to share that my PhD work on the generation of hindlimb and genital progenitors from human pluripotent stem cells is now available on BioRxiv! 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Mama I won a poster prize 🏆🎉

Orion and solar eclipse: new, fascinating image posted on NASA Johnson's flickr account, captured by a GoPro camera mounted on one of the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Venus can be spotted on the left, and Saturn on the right of the Moon. flic.kr/p/2s7wkRo #Artemis 🧪🔭

Happy #fluorescencefriday (and start of vacation!) to all those who are celebrating Lifeact-labeled epidermal stem cells closing a wound after in vivo adult zebrafish skin injury

Hero spacecraft inside the well deck of the USS John P. Murtha www.flickr.com/photos/nasah... #Artemis 🧪🔭

How it started, how it's going Left: Lunar Orbiter I, 1966 Right: Artemis II, 2026 flic.kr/p/8Grtp2 flic.kr/p/2s68RXM #Artemis 🧪🔭

Artemis II Lunar Flyby gallery www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... #Artemis 🧪🔭

Peering out one of the four windows near the display console of the Orion spacecraft, the Earth is illuminated by the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Credit: NASA. flic.kr/p/2s5Vzbd #Artemis 🧪🔭

Huge congratulations to James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social for receiving the 2026 BSDB Waddington Medal, recognising an extraordinary career of discovery, mentorship, and leadership in developmental biology. bsdb.org/2026/03/24/2...

Our #CellLineOfTheWeek is beta-actin - illuminating actin filaments! 🧫 Our entire catalog of stem cell lines & plasmids are available to researchers for just the cost of shipping to reduce the barriers to discovery 📦 Distributed by @Coriell_Science and @Addgene

Many animals adjust or pause development in response to environmental conditions to maximise survival. To understand this potential, called diapause, @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social induces a diapause-like state in mice & embryonic stem cells. #gfe2026 @dev-journal.bsky.social interview with Aydan⤵️

‘Muscle Brain’ literally obscures sight. Not protective. Just limiting. Not shielding vulnerability. Just preventing clarity. ‘Muscle’… not as armor. But as blindfold. What happens when stubborn clinging to illusions of brute force there’s nothing but override vision Britt-Ingrid Persson 🇸🇪

Dynamics, dynamics, dynamics! We asked how ER+ breast cancer cells transition from dormancy to reactivation. Inspired by developmental biology, we show that HES1 protein oscillations change during this shift — and that disrupting these dynamics prevents reactivation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“Cognitive psychology has shown that students grow intellectually through doing the work of drafting, revising, failing, trying again, grappling with confusion, and revising weak arguments. This is the work of learning how to learn” phys.org/news/2026-02...

Issue 3 is complete! On the cover: Immunofluorescence staining of phosphorylated FGFR1 (magenta), TBXT (yellow) and β-catenin (cyan) in 2D human gastruloids. See the Research Article by Idse Heemskerk and colleagues (@heemskerklab.bsky.social) here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

2 weeks to go until the registration/abstract submission deadline for our @cclguk.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social symposium on the developmental origins of paediatric cancers at the @crick.ac.uk this June. Great speaker line up and slots for short talks: www.cclg.org.uk/information-...

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

An intracellular meteor shower. EB3 comets tracking growing microtubule plus-ends in a cultured cell.

Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint! Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago. How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 1/

The lab turned 10 this month, what better way to celebrate than with an amazing cake from @faycooper.bsky.social! I feel lucky to have worked alongside so many talented students, postdocs, and colleagues here in Sheffield over the years.

The world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta

Another fascinating - and totally serendipitous - example of how human biological sex isn't always binary, despite executive orders that it is. In this case an XX/XY mosaic individual was a fertile female. Other XX/XY mosaics can be phenotypically male.

⏰ Deadline Approaching! ⏰ 📅 15 January 2026 Under two weeks to apply for our fully funded PhD project “Engineering an in vitro human embryo implantation platform to study pathologies arising in early pregnancy” at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #development #endometrium #materialsscience

Fuse it or lose it: cell fusion drives developmental progression This Research Highlight showcases work by Owen Funk, Daniel Levy and David Fay: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

This movie shows lysosomes (orange) and keratin (gray) in a cultured cell over 10 minutes.

Super interesting read about the connections of human and AI evolution 🧬 --- What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great to see this published: Fitting dynamical landscape models to single-cell data, creating interpretable maps of cell decision making & developmental logic Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New preprint! Do you like ocean waves? We found similar waves on bacterial colonies! We found that this collective behavior, known as rippling, is nothing but surface waves on an active nematic. @princeton.edu @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Perseverance on the move again, proceeding toward Lac de Charmes, a major science target on the plains beyond the rim ℹ️ www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-p... #Mars Nov. 29, 2025 - Sol 1698 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

Some beautiful green-fluorescent-protein (GFP)-expressing larval brains and neurons generated by my undergraduate students last week. A special shout-out for anyone who spots the neuromuscular junctions.

And Now... The Aurora Borealis from Space! www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.

Methodology

Always ask yourself: “What evidence would convince me that I’m wrong?” If the answer is, “nothing,” then you are not adhering to the rules of science or logic. thelogicofscience.com/2019/03/05/h...

⏰ Deadline in two weeks! ⏰ Work at the interface of biology + computation to build a virtual human embryo to predict developmental success and failure. Happy to answer questions!

Next Monday, we welcome @cshambaugh.bsky.social from the University of Oregon in our ROTO Lecture Series who will talk about dialectical biology. Just register via the link and join the talk and discussion at 4pm (CET): rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci

Hi, I’m David Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social. I’ll take you through how cells in a tissue can use information distributed by biochemical gradients to make decisions, and how we can measure such positional information. buff.ly/RFxVeHh

Next Monday, we'll have our first reading group session in this semester. We'll discuss "The epistemic superiority of experiment to simulation" by Sherrilyn Roush: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Wanna join the discussion at 4pm CET? Just write an e-mail to jan.baedke[at]rub.de! #HPBio #PhilSci

How can we organize current theoretical approaches for developmental biology - from information to dynamical systems & GRNs - into a common framework? We propose to think along Marr's 3 levels: computational problem, algorithm, implementation Check out our review: arxiv.org/abs/2510.24536

🧠✨ Genetic Tools Atlas 3.0 is here! The GTA now has an additional 750 datasets, including 80+ mouse whole-brain light sheet microscopy images as well as the first macaque datasets. 🔗 https://portal.brain-map.org/genetic-tools/genetic-tools-atlas #neuroskyence